The Funhouse

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The Funhouse
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Directed by Tobe Hooper
Written byLarry Block
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Andrew Laszlo
Edited byJack Hofstra
Music by John Beal
Production
companies
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • March 13, 1981 (1981-03-13)
Running time
96 minutes [1] [2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget~$2 million [3]
Box office$7.9 million [4]

The Funhouse is a 1981 American slasher film directed by Tobe Hooper, written by Larry Block and starring Elizabeth Berridge, Kevin Conway, William Finley, Cooper Huckabee, Miles Chapin, Largo Woodruff, Wayne Doba, and Sylvia Miles. The film's plot concerns four Midwestern teenagers who become trapped in a dark ride at a traveling carnival and are stalked by a mentally disabled murderous carnie.

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A Universal Pictures production, The Funhouse was director Hooper's first major studio film after The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and Eaten Alive (1976). Its producers were inspired to produce a successful teenage-themed horror film following the major financial success of Paramount's slasher Friday the 13th (1980). Though the film set in Iowa, principal photography took place on backlots at Norin Studios in Miami, Florida.

Upon its release on March 13, 1981, The Funhouse was a commercial disappointment, but received mixed to positive reviews from critics with praise for its atmosphere, cinematography and Kevin Conway's performance but criticisms for its pacing and comparisons to Tobe Hooper's other works. Contemporary film scholars and critics have noted that the film continues Hooper's recurring theme of family as seen in his previous films.

A novelization of the film by Dean Koontz was released prior to its release, with Koontz using the pseudonym Owen West.

Plot

In small-town Iowa, a masked intruder attacks teenager Amy as she showers. The attacker turns out to be her younger brother Joey, a horror film fan, and his weapon is a fake rubber prop knife.

Against her father's wishes, Amy visits a sleazy traveling carnival with her new boyfriend Buzz, her best friend Liz, and Liz's irresponsible boyfriend Richie. At the carnival, the four teens smoke marijuana, peep into a 21-and-over strip show, heckle fortune teller Madame Zena, visit the freaks-of-nature exhibit, and view a magic show.

Richie dares the group to spend the night in "The Funhouse," which is a dark ride. After the carnival closes, the teenagers settle down inside the funhouse. Through a grate to a room below the attraction, the teenagers witness the ride assistant, a silent man in a Frankenstein's Monster mask, engaging Zena as a prostitute. He experiences premature ejaculation, but despite his request, Zena will not return her $100 fee; he then murders her in a violent rage.

The teenagers try to leave but find themselves locked inside the funhouse. As they attempt to escape, Richie secretly steals the money from the safe from which the masked assistant took Zena's fee. The funhouse's barker, Conrad Straker, discovers what his son Gunther Twibunt (the masked assistant) has done to Zena. Conrad also realizes that the money is missing. Thinking Gunther took it, he attacks him. Gunther's face is revealed to be gruesomely deformed via albinism and frontonasal dysplasia with sharp protruding teeth, long white thinning hair, red eyes, and a cleft running up the bridge of his nose.

The teens see this, and Conrad realizes someone is watching after Richie's lighter falls on the floor from the ceiling he and the others were hiding in. Buzz concludes that Richie has the money. Richie insists that he would have split the money with the others. Despite Liz wanting to return the money, Buzz knows it is too late since they are now in danger. Conrad stalks the funhouse to eliminate any witnesses and heckles Gunther into a murderous rage. The teens arm themselves with the various funhouse props as weapons.

Richie is hanged with a rope by Conrad, and the remaining three witness his corpse riding through on a cart. Liz, hysterical, falls through a trapdoor and is confronted by Gunther. She stabs him with a dagger before he kills her by pushing her head through an industrial exhaust fan. Buzz stabs Conrad to death when he confronts him and Amy but is then killed by Gunther. During a showdown between final girl Amy and Gunther in the funhouse's maintenance area, Gunther is electrocuted and crushed to death between two spinning gears.

As dawn breaks, the traumatized sole survivor Amy emerges from the funhouse and heads home as the animatronic fat lady perched atop the entrance laughs mockingly at her.

Cast

Themes

In his 1997 book Hearths of Darkness, author Tony Williams argues that The Funhouse "continues [Hooper's] exploration of the American family's repressive nature", a theme previously explored in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). [5] Williams further posits that the "carnival world" which Amy enters acts as a liberating, unrepressed counter to the restricted nature of her home life with her family. [5] The theme of family was similarly noted by critic Cynthia Rose of The Monthly Film Bulletin , who wrote of the film during its 1981 release: "Again as in [The Texas] Chain Saw [Massacre], the film’s real focus is on the family and, through it, on the 'permissive' society. Over and over, we see how the 'monstrous' (and once more all-male) family—the source of the evil—is sustained and regenerated by exterminating (in Chain Saw, actually devouring) the threat of the outsider." [2]

The Funhouse contains metafiction elements, including in its opening scene, which explicitly parodies the opening sequence of the 1978 slasher film Halloween , as well as the shower scene in Psycho (1960). [6] [7] Hooper said that the opening scene "immediately [lets] you know you're watching a genre picture. In particular, too, it helped make the film a little safe. And I wanted that. Because I wanted the color and the fantasy, to build up to the moment where this person [who] is wearing a Frankenstein mask is actually the strange anomaly". [8]

In the 2021 book American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper, writers Kristopher Woofter and Will Dodson note a recurring theme throughout The Funhouse of a world in which adults mistreat and look down upon teenagers, characterizing them as "a corrupt cabal disenfranchising the young." [9]

Production

Development

The Funhouse was written by Larry Block, and the script was purchased by Universal Pictures, who were looking to produce a teen-aimed horror film after the success of Paramount's Friday the 13th (1980). [10] Tobe Hooper, who had recently completed the miniseries Salem's Lot (1979) for Warner Bros., was offered to direct The Funhouse. [11] Hooper agreed to sign on as director as he saw "a lot of potential" in its carnival setting; Hooper was an admirer of Nightmare Alley (1947), a film noir set in a carnival, and had always wanted to make a film of his own set in the same locale. [12]

Casting

Elizabeth Berridge, who was cast in the lead role of Amy Harper, is given an "introducing" credit, though she had previously appeared in the film Natural Enemies (1979). [13] Largo Woodruff was cast in the role of Amy's best friend, Liz, after auditioning and screen testing for the part with Hooper in New York City. [14]

Commenting to Roger Ebert at the time, Sylvia Miles said of her casting: "[It]'s fabulous, I’m playing a fortuneteller. Madame Zena. I have a phony accent and a great scene where I lose the accent gradually as I’m being murdered in the fun house. Of course, there are people who have asked why I want to be in a horror picture. You know what I always say: Better a horror film than a horrible film. Besides, the people who see them, I think they remember the horror films better than the others." [15]

Filming

Though set in the American Midwest in Iowa, [16] The Funhouse was shot on the backlots of the Ivan Tors Studios in Miami, Florida, [17] over approximately ten weeks. [14] According to Hooper, the budget was "just a little over two million dollars." [18] The production originally intended to shoot the film on the Universal Studios lots, but opted instead to film on the east coast, as they were unable to obtain a waiver in the state of California allowing for child actor Shawn Carson—who played a significant role in the film—to work overnight due to child labor laws. [19] Filming in Florida also allowed Hooper and the production to hire real carnies to appear in the film, as many traveling carnival workers settle in the state during the winter season when principal photography occurred. [20]

The amusement rides and attractions featured in the film, which date from the 1940s and 1950s, were acquired from a defunct carnival in Akron, Ohio. [13] The "freakshow" animals seen in the film—including one cow with a cleft palate and another with two heads [8] [21] —were real animals that belonged to a traveling carnival. [22]

Special effects

The deformed facial appearance of Gunther Twibunt—who was dubbed "cow-man" by Hooper and other members of the crew [23] —was designed by makeup artist Rick Baker and executed by makeup artist Craig Reardon. [24] The film's screenplay did not describe Twibunt's appearance in much detail, which allowed Baker some creative freedom during the design process. [24] In an interview with Fangoria , Baker said:

It's a birth-defect type monster. After I started thinking about it for a while, I felt real guilty about making that deformity a monster. It's so easy to take horror straight from nature, because there are some pretty horrifying real things. I just didn't feel right about making it a straight freak, so I added a little more to it. I hope it comes across that way, because it still has a lot of the birth defect aspect to it. [24]

Twibunt's hands were designed by Reardon. [23] The character was portrayed by Wayne Doba, a mime from the San Francisco area. [24]

Additionally, Reardon designed Twibunt's brother, a preserved infant exhibiting similar facial deformities seen on display at the carnival in the film. [23] A vinyl cast of a baby from a medical supply house was used as a base for the prop. [23]

Music

The orchestral musical score for The Funhouse was composed by John Beal. In 1998, Beal's score was released on compact disc, which became a collector's item. [25] [26] In 2023, the score was given a limited edition vinyl release by Waxwork Records. [27]

Release

The Funhouse opened in 814 theaters in the United States on March 13, 1981. It was released in some locations with the subtitle Carnival of Terror. [a]

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Television airing

Following its theatrical release, an alternate cut of the film was aired on network television which featured additional footage to supplant the scenes of violence and nudity that had to be excised, as well as to pad the running time. [31] This footage was released as a standalone bonus feature on the Blu-ray disc released by Scream Factory. [32]

Home media

The film was unsuccessfully prosecuted as a video nasty in the United Kingdom a few years after its release; the BBFC had previously passed the film for cinema exhibition with an X certificate. [33] Some commentators have questioned its attempted banning, given that the film is fairly tame in comparison to other entries on the list, leading some to suggest it was mistakenly chosen instead of the infamous Last House on Dead End Street , [34] which was released under an alternative title The Fun House and did not appear on the list. In 1987, the BBFC passed the film for home media release with an 18 certificate, which was downgraded to a 15 certificate in 2007. [33] The film received a special edition Blu-ray disc in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2011, by Arrow Video.

In the United States, GoodTimes Entertainment released The Funhouse on VHS and DVD in 1998 and 1999, respectively. [35] Universal Home Entertainment released a DVD edition in 2004. [36]

In October 2012, Shout! Factory released the film on Blu-ray and DVD in a special collector's edition under their horror sub-label, Scream Factory. [37] A 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray edition featuring newly conducted interviews with cast and crew members was released by Scream Factory on September 12, 2022. [38]

The film has also been made available for streaming on various platforms, including the horror streaming service Shudder in 2022. [39]

Reception

Box office

The Funhouse earned $2,765,456 in the United States during its opening weekend and went on to gross $7,886,857 in total. [4]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, The Funhouse holds a 67% approval rating based on 21 critic reviews, with an average rating of 6.2/10. [40] Tobe Hooper was specifically praised for bringing style and suspense to what could have been a standard early-1980s blood and gore-focused horror film, and his work here was largely responsible for him getting the job of directing the original Poltergeist movie. Film critic Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune liked the film and gave it a positive review. [41] He also cited it as one of his "guilty pleasures" in a 1987 show, giving the film credit for having an interesting story, creative direction, and even a somewhat sympathetic villain.

John Corry of The New York Times gave the film a middling review, noting: "At times, in fact, Mr. Hooper almost persuades us that he is up to more than just gore, creepiness and trauma. He has photographed a carnival - freak show, girly show, grifters and geeks -with a sense of style. The carnival is a small vision of middle-America gone sour, reveling in mean gaiety, and it is not bad while it lasts. Then the monster comes in and drools." [42] Variety 's review of the film was similarly mixed: "For all the elegance of photography, [the] pic has nothing in particular up its sleeves, and devotees of director Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre will be particularly disappointed with the almost total lack of shocks and mayhem." [43]

In a review published in People , the film was praised: "While the director, Tobe (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) Hooper, ought to have moved on to better things, he is the master of this gore-and-sadism genre... The film features an excruciatingly tense final confrontation. [44] Alex Keneas of Newsday also gave the film a positive review: "The Funhouse doesn't trade on gratuitous and graphic gore, but it doesn't have to. In little ways and using the traditional tried and true devices of the genre ... it skillfully heightens expectations [and] nicely evokes the chiller of a bygone era as it pays respect to Hitchcock and James Whale." [45]

Novelization

A novelization of the screenplay was written by Dean Koontz, under the pseudonym Owen West. [46] As the film production took longer than expected, the book was released before the film. The novel contains a great deal of backstory and characterization which was not used in the film.[ citation needed ]

Notes

  1. ↑ John Kenneth Muir notes that the film was sometimes known as Carnival of Terror. [28] During its theatrical release in the Tampa, Florida area, the film was billed with Carnival of Terror as a subtitle. [29]

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